During my day of final interviews, my new manager, Lillian, kindly took me to lunch in the company cafeteria. I embarrassed myself by hunting for a fork; Lillian said she would get me one and in the end, had to go all the way out to the lobby to Starbucks to get me one! I will definitely be bringing my own in the future....
Choices included a tofu bar (called "Natural Alternative"), a noodle-soup station, an uninspired cold salad bar, and a hot buffet line with probably 10 choices (you take 2-3 side dishes, 1 main, miso soup, and brown or white rice).
We chose the hot buffet, and the food I liked best was the duck-blood pate with sour squash... I can't explain that, but it was actually delicious with brown rice. The sauteed pork just sucked by comparison, and I actually got up for a second helping of the duck. LOL
Lillian and I had a great conversation, ranging from our families, to travel, to fruit we like (I tried fresh guava for the first time, and that got us started there), and a little bit about food. She confessed to not much liking the cafeteria where we were eating because it gets very boring; I can see that. :-)
I got a real kick out of the signage where you dropped off your dishes. There were three lines: Buffet Persuasion, Noodle Persuasion, and Other Persuasion.
UTENSIL(s): chopsticks from cafeteria (terrible technique), plastic fork from Starbucks
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